The Concealed Carry advice that sounds smart — until stress hits Concealed carry culture is full of confident advice that sounds airtight in a calm classroom or on a sunny range. Under real stress, though, some of those “rules” fall apart, colliding with human physiology, legal reality, and the messy way violence actually unfolds….
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Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off
Lessons Learned from the Battlefield: “Live” Training Pays Off Memorizing TTPs won’t save you; fighting under resistance will. Baghdad Checkpoint The gunner let loose a long burst of machine-gun fire through the windshield of a speeding car. Days earlier, two Rangers had been killed nearby when a “pregnant” woman detonated a suicide vest at…
Training Stressors
Most combat firearms training today lacks realism; Those “primal elements” that the student needs to experience when they are TRULY fighting for their lives. One of these primal elements that we can replicate with some degree of certainty is STRESS. In the heady days of firearms training (waaaay before I was a glint…